Year 3 - English
Reading and performing a script based on 'The Iron Man'
Reading and performing scripts
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils read, engage with, analyse and act from play scripts for the first time. They learn about the conventions of scripts, directors and actors' roles within a cast and how to improvise at the end of the unit. Pupils also build their performance and oracy skills.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to read and respond to a play script based on 'The Iron Man' and perform it in front of an audience.
Key Notes
- Play scripts are written with certain conventions that help make a script organised, clear and easy to follow.
- Performance techniques are tools that actors use to connect with the audience.
- These techniques can be learnt, practised and developed.
- Deciding where to stand and how to move is an important part of the rehearsal process for the director and actors.
- Plays can have large or small casts - the number of actors who play the different characters in a play.
Vocabulary To Learn
- play script conventions: rules that are followed by playwrights to write play scripts that are clear and easy to follow
- performance techniques: the ways an actor uses their body, voice and facial expressions to bring a character to life in a play
- setting description: a brief description of where and when the action takes place at the beginning of a scene in a play
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think it is **always** easier to perform a play with a small number of characters.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Play scripts are written with certain conventions that help make a script organised, clear and easy to follow. Performance techniques are tools that actors use to connect with the audience.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'play script conventions'
rules that are followed by playwrights to write play scripts that are clear and easy to follow.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may think it is **always** easier to perform a play with a small number of characters. Correction: The difficulty of a play is not just down to the number of characters in it. Often, the most difficult plays are the ones with the most troubling or complicated themes - central messages that the playwright wants the audience to think deeply about.
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